The current health care reform bill orders everyone to buy insurance from the big corporations, and has few cost controls or other controls on those companies to make sure they don't just cheat people like they do now.
This is bad on a scale equivalent to Bush's huge bailout of the' [...]
Anyone who wants to understand Libertarianism should read Romancing the Stone-Cold Killer. You'll be shocked.
' [...]Aside from oil and coal companies, I can think of another group with a BIG stake in climate change denial and that is developers, property owners and realtors who are trying to sell coastal property.
Imagine what happens to the value of property that is less than 50 feet above [...]
I'll be doing my weekly segment on the radio show The Fairness Doctrine at 1:30 pacific, 4:30 eastern.
Click through the link to listen live or to get recordings of previous shows.
Watch this:
But most of the public probably thinks the deficit is because of Obama... Propaganda works, that's why they do it.
[...]This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF.
American competitiveness is severely hobbled by our "free market" and anti-government attitudes. One way our competitors hold us [...]
This post originally appeared at Speak Out California.
In last week's post progressive voters on strike? Santa Barbara blogger Retired UC Santa Barbara Professor of sociology and renowned social activist, Richard Flacks looks at recent polls showing Democratic voters to be unenthusiastic about voting while Republican voters are highly [...]
There is one and only one reason YOU can't have Medicare: to preserve the huge checks for CEOs of giant health insurance companies. That is how our country works now.
Matthew Yglesias ｻ The New Health Care Deal
' [...]I strongly recommend listening to this radio interview (click to download/listen) on Madison's "Sly In The Morning" show. Mary Bottari of BanksterUSA.comtalks about what is going on with banking reform and regulation.
Here is the original post about it, with a media player that lets you listen without [...]
So I had dinner at a friend's house last night. She works hard (caring for mentally challenged people in a facility), but of course doesn't make a lot (she only has a Master's degree). She tells a story about how she went to the bank to be sure she had' [...]
When I use Firefox the CPU meter goes way up, and the fan runs constantly. Sometimes when I am watching a YouTube the computer just shuts itself off. If I run Firefox and Skype at the same time I have to anticipate the shutdown.
Does anyone else have this problem?
I [...]
I think this is a significant post from Natasha, who is on her way to Copenhagen to cover the climate treaty talks: Is China Still A Developing Nation? | OurFuture.org
The details of climate treaties are complex and wonky, but important. There is a "Clean Development Mechanism" in the [...]
Not Under The Bus is serving as a hub for online info about action centers fighting for women's health care in the health care reform bill before Congress.
This is not a redundant or competing effort, it links to all the groups, sites, etc. that are [...]
This is the must-read blog post of the month: The Greatest Deception in the History of Finance | The Big Picture
I won't give anything away here. Go read it.
' [...]In today's hearings Bernanke called for cutting Social Security to cover the shortfall that will occur when the money borrowed from Social Security to fund tax cuts for the rich is needed.
As David Dayen wrote today at FDL, "And this is what he’s saying when he WANTS" [...]
This post originally appeared at Speak Out California.
California Senator Dianne Feinstein has joined a group of Senators threatening to allow the nation to default on its debt unless a commission to "fast track" cuts to Social Security is created.
Talking Points Memo describes what is going [...]
Here are my reasons for supporting this strategy of a surge with a timeline at the end:
First and foremost, women and the Taliban. This is the main reason I support this - we cannot abandon the women and people of Afghanistan to the Taliban.
This is not an "escalation" in the [...]
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF.
The “Jobs Summit” is Thursday. Are they going to try to get things back to normal? I hope [...]
My take on Obama's speech is that Bush left Obama little choice on how to proceed, and this is the best that can be done with it.
Bush had the chance to conclude Afghanistan years ago but neglected it, just like how he let bin Laden go, because he had his [...]
I am working with BanksterUSA, and the Real Economy Project to help get financial regulations passed.
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This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF.
In September, President Obama Enforces Trade Law In China Tire Case!
President Obama signaled a new direction [...]
So I roam in London, Paris, New York, San Francisco.
[...]Can any libertarians out there please tell me how "the market" punished these executives for killing the companies and helping take the economy into collapse?
The top executives at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bear Stearns Cos. cashed out almost $2.5 billion from their firms between [...]
Many Democrats are not going to show up and vote. That is all there is to it. Obama also has to start standing up for the people, demanding that Dems in the Senate start acting like Democrats, and doing so very publicly and loudly. If he doesn't do these tihngs' [...]
The COBRA subsidy runs out next week. 7 million Americans are receiving that subsidy so next week the first wave of them loses their health insurance.
Well, they don't technically lose their insurance, they just have to pay hundreds of dollars' [...]
Christian_Dem_NY, a commenter over at Open Left has an idea,
... Enact a tax that applies ONLY to those that make $250,000 or more per year, and that only raises their top rate to 50% (which was the LOWEST [...]
Have you heard about the emails?
The emails prove that the ice isn't really melting. Those ships that you saw in the news crossing the Arctic in the summer were actually photoshopped, according to one of the emails. As were the satellite photos that show the ice receding. All the' [...]
I'm sitting in for Chris Bowers over at Open Left today. I'll cross-post a few things here.
[...]Digby writes about a scam by Bank of America, where they switched the envelope to look like junk mail, so people threw it away, and they collect million upon millions in late fees. Credit Card Companies Are Using Dirty Tricks' [...]
Have you noticed signs of "bubble mentality" in the housing market in your area? In my area the bubble is reignited by cheap credit and government subsidies. Just this week a relative told me that "housing prices will come back" because "housing always goes up." People are talking again about [...]
Apparently having any laws or regulations at all means that things are "under the control of the government."
P.S. Oh, and this is supposed to be a bad thing.
[...]From Payback Time - Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government - Series - NYTimes.com
With the national debt now topping $12 trillion, the White House estimates that the government’s tab for servicing the debt [...]
This is really funny, except it was Bush, not Obama, who borrowed all that money from China, and who bailed out the banksters.
[...]I have an op-ed in today's San Jose Mercury News: Opinion: Why America needs to go back to taxing the wealthy. Here is a bit of it:
While America has always been a place where a person could get rich, it used to be that you got rich a [...]
The Johnsons have two cell phones and a landline. Pretty much the only calls we get on the landline are telemarketing calls, but for some reason we keep it around.
It would be nice if the government kept a database of people who do not want to be called at home [...]
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF.
The country needs a jobs program and needs it right now. Cash for Caulkers would be a [...]
In two weeks the first wave of unemployed who qualified for COBRA health insurance subsidies under the "stimulus plan" will start losing their health insurance, and Congress has not acted.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans will start losing their health insurance each month as their COBRA subsidies expire.
Of course, [...]
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF.
President Obama is visiting Asia, and is blasted over and over about America's supposedly "protectionist" policies. [...]
Everyone thinks this huge deficit is Obama's doing. For example, a letter in today's San Jose Mercury News,
Deficit story should have been Page 1
The brief Associated Press story "October federal deficit is a record'' (Page 9A, Nov. 13) should'" [...]
Paul Rosenberg nails it: Open Left:: The "Entitlement Problem": Racing ourselves to the bottom
But to a very large extent, the culture wars are a war of constructed tribal identity, fronting for elite corporate interests, and their primary historical achievement has been to [...]
In the intro to tonite's NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, led with "Sarah Palin's Book, you can't get it yet, but we've got it."
The second segment of the "news" broadcast was entirely Palin and her book. It started with all the "buzz' about the book, just a huge'" [...]
Food for thought: Attention Lloyd Blankfein: The Public Purpose of Banking,
... WHO controls the banks is ultimately less important than HOW we control the banks’ activities. Oversight is all very nice, but at times it pays to get back [...]
Bush's last budget year wrapped up last month, leaving us a deficit of over $1.4 trillion. But everyone blames Obama because the right's noise machine has repeated over and over that Obama is "spending" -- and no one shows up to explain the truth.
On the NewsHour the moderator just said "new taxes slows down the economy at a time when people are hurting." This is in a discussion of how to fix state budgets. The panelist responds, "That's exactly right."
This is just absolute nonsense. This shows what happens when something is repeated over [...]
This is what "externalizing" pollution costs looks like: Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China | ChinaHush
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